| web link | bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB24921 |
| reference type | Journal Article |
| title | The Four Levels of Detachment in Dorris Lessing's Shikasta |
| journal | Journal of Bahá'í Studies |
| author | Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg |
| authority control | Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis |
| year | 2004 |
| date | Sept.–Dec. 2004 |
| issue | 3-4 |
| volume | 14 |
| abstract | The paper begins with a discussion of Bahá'u'lláh's concept of detachment. It then applies this concept to Doris Lessing's Sufi-inspired novel Shikasta, which uses the genre of space fiction to defamiliarize the reader's response to the coming of a new prophet to a troubled late-20th-century planet - a dystopian version of earth. Perrakis correlates four characters to four levels of detachment in Bahá'u'lláh's Words of Wisdom. The paper explores the barriers that stand in the way of the characters' development of detachment and analyzes the reciprocal relation between detachment and attachment and service to the new prophet. |
| language | English |
| keywords | LESSING, DORRIS. SHIKASTA; SCIENCE FICTION; DETACHMENT |
| pages | 73–99 |
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